Loose-leaf hotel-register device.



w. H. HALL. LOOSE LEAF HOTEL REGISTER DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8- 19H!- 1,302,654. Patented May 6, 1919.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

WILLIAM H. HALL, 013 0101330, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN HOTEL REGISTER 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1919.

Application filed June 8, 1918. Serial No. 238,968.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HALL, a citizen of the United States, residin at Cicero, in the county of Cook and the tate of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loose-Leaf Hotel- Register Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a light-weight, conveniently handled pad for securely holding loose leaf hotel register sheets on the counter while the arrlving guests are registering their names thereon. In hotels havlng a large number of arrivals per day, they frequently come in crowds. During the process of registering it is necessary for the clerk behind the counter to turn the sheet about many times to mark and to refer to room numbers and other data, and when a sheet has been filled, with other arrivals waiting to register, to quickly remove the filled sheet and replace it with another.

The fundamental features of this invention, and the essential features of a hotel registering device where loose leaves are used, are a pad or holding device to contain the registering sheet, having a smooth surface on which to lay the sheet, and as light in weight and as thin as is consistent with rigidity and durability, with a smooth under surface that will not scratch the counter. Equally important is a means for securely holding the sheet on the pad, so constructed that the sheets may be quickly attached and detached.

To facilitate this quick and convenient I handling, the means for holding the sheet b ll should not extend beyond the lines of the pad, nor above its surface more than the necessary thickness of the holding cli and the thickness of the register sheets it holds. The novel features of this invention fully meet these requirements, as will be seen from the following description.

Figure 1 is a top plan view with broken away.

Fig. 2 is an end view.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3--3, Fig. 1.

In Fig. 1, A is a pad of suitable thickness and somewhat larger than the register sheet,

parts preferably made of tar board lined with leather.

At one end of this pad an elongated notch is cut. The length and depth of this notch is indicated by the dotted and solid line B, Fig. 1. (The inside wall of this notch is to, Fig. 3.)

The spring clip holding device, and the manner of attaching it to the pad is shown in detail in Fig. 3. In this figure C is a metal base with its outer edge turned up to give rigidity. D is one of a series of upturned lugs having holes adapted to receive the hinge rod E. This base piece G extends a considerable distance on the under side of the pad and is attached thereto by means of rivets F. See Fig. 3.

The spring pressed clip G has downward extending lugs with holes therein adapted to register with the holes in the lugs D of the base part, and is hinged to the base part by means of the rod E, which passes through the holes in both sets of lugs. The springs H hold the front edge of this member G firmly on the registering sheet I, and when it is desired to remove the filled sheet and replace with another, it is easily and quickly done by pressing on the back edge of the holding cli with one hand and changing the sheets with the other.

A holding clip for the purpose herein de scribed cannot be mounted on the top of the pad in the usual way because it would be inconvenient acceptable to the trade. Hence the novel arrangement of combining the two partsthe pad and holding clip-by cutting the elongated notch the which is defined by line B, Fig. 1, in one side of the pad into which the hinge, consisting of the rod E, the springs H and the lugs on the two members, fit, thus allowing the base member of the holding cli to rest on the bottom of the pad and be securely attached thereto, while the spring pressed member extends slightly above the surface with its front holding edge resting firmly on the surface.

I claim- In a loose leaf hotel register device a substantial board having an elongated notch cut in one side, a springpressed holding length and depth of and in the way and entirely unclip adapted to fit into said notch, said ch13 lnwing a rigid bottom member adapted to extend beyond the inner edge of said notch in said board and nornmlly resting upon the top surface thereof.

1 e r and be secured to the bottom side of the ILLIAM HALL- 5 board, a rocking spring-pressed member Witnesses:

hinged to said rigid base, its inner edge SAM C. NoYER,

extending beyond the inner edge of the slot THOs. F. LEAHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0." e 

